July 4, 2006
Some text messages read like page turners
Cell phone novels continue to be popular in Japan. The IHT reports.
"Naito's 2004 novel "Love Link" recorded 1.5 million paid accesses over a six- month period in which it was serially distributed. Another of her novels, "Love" posted free on a mobile Web site, received 14 million accesses over six months.
... On the book site run by Shinchosha, readers pay ¥200, or $1.75, for unlimited access to all electronic novels. At any time, about 40 titles are available, including many that are no longer subject to copyright, like works by Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Shakespeare.
Several factors are stimulating mobile readership of comics and novels.
Readers of comics favor multimedia functions of the phone, like sliding pictures up, down and sideways, and setting the phone to vibrate to accompany certain actions, like shooting a machine gun or diving into water."
Related Links:
-- Japanese mobile readers help book business
-- Links to other cell phone novels
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